Bigcommerce,
the fastest-growing e-commerce platform, today announced three senior
hires in San Francisco, brought in to support the expansion of the
Bigcommerce platform and rapid growth in number of merchants and online
sales. New hires include: Steve Corona, principal architect; Scott
Baker, head of Site Reliability and Operations; and Kei Tang, head of
Quality Engineering. In the past year, the company has seen 100 percent
year-over-year revenue growth, increased the number of online stores
from 35,000 to 55,000, and is approaching $4 billion in total online
sales across merchants.

Steve Corona joins Bigcommerce as principal architect. He
is the former CTO of TwitPic where he helped them become one of the most
heavily used independent services for sharing images on Twitter, with
over 50 million users and 4 billion photos. More recently, he was head
of platform at Life360, where he architected the core APIs that serve as
the backbone of the service. Corona is also author of the popular book
Scaling PHP.

Scott Baker joins Bigcommerce as head of Site Reliability
and Operations. He most recently was director of Systems Engineering and
Operations at Eventbrite, where he was responsible for taking
eventbrite.com to 99.99 percent availability, during a time when the
company announced it had processed $2 billion in gross ticket sales.
Prior to that, he was vice president of operations at Digg, where he was
also a frequent speaker on monitoring website performance and web
technology trends. He has been a keynote presenter at the Cloud Connect
conference in Santa Clara.

Kei Tang joins Bigcommerce as head of Quality Engineering.
He spent seven years at Salesforce.com, most recently as director of
Quality Engineering, where he scaled SaaS/PaaS services from being able
to handle millions of transactions a day to over one billion per day.
Tang was responsible for delivering Salesforce's Analytics real-time
reporting and dashboard features on sales, service, custom apps, and
third-party data during a time when the company grew from almost $500
million to over $3 billion in revenue.

“Bigcommerce has experienced tremendous growth over the
past few years. We’re making the necessary investments in top talent to
support and further build out our efforts on all fronts,” said Steve
Power, president of Bigcommerce. “Steve, Scott and Kei are industry
heavyweights – recognized experts in their respective fields – who will
make a real impact at Bigcommerce as we continue to innovate our
platform and help businesses sell more online.”

These new hires join the almost 200 people Bigcommerce has
brought on since the beginning of the year, including more than 56 in
San Francisco and 125 in Austin.